Stanley G. Grizzle, judge and labour union activist

There are so many African-Canadians that have changed the world not only for African-Canadians, but for everyone, and that is why i have chosen to write about Stanley G. Grizzle. Stanley G. Grizzle was born 1918 in Toronto, Ontario to his parents who were Jamaican immigrants, he was the oldest of seven children. While working as a porter, Grizzle became active in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP)a trade union whose leader was the charismatic African American A. Philip Randolph. Upon his return to Canada after serving in Europe during World War II, Grizzle became more active in the union. He was elected president of his union local, and pushed the CPR to open the management ranks to African-Canadians. He also got involved in other causes .causes and was a leader in Canada's nascent civil rights era of the 1950s, working with the Joint Labour Committee to Combat Racial Intolerance.In 1959, Grizzle and Jack White were the first Black Canadian candidates to run for election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the predecessor to the New Democratic Party). In 1960, Grizzle went to work for the Ontario Labour Relations Board, and in 1978 he was appointed a by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Grizzle received the Order of Ontario in 1990 from Lieutenant-Governor Lincoln Alexander because of his work with the (BSCP) and for his civil rights work and Grizzle recently received the Stanley Ferguson Lifetime Accomplishment award and received a grant of 25 shares of Coca-Cola stock. The way that this man changed Canada was that he decided that he wanted black people to have rights to and he got them those rights and now African-Canadians are treated like equals not only because of him but because of all the black rights activists to ever stand up.

the second site i visited that i didn't link to in the report is this

Assignement #5

During the course of my researching I discovered how early Canadians survived the long bitter winter. First they built their houses out of logs, fieldstone, spruce poles or prairie sod because they had to withstand the winter and quote "on the farm the Acadians drained the marshes along bays and rivers by building dykes and a drainage system that only let water out not back in called aboiteaux , to keep sea water out. Then they would wait two years for the sea salt to be wasted out by the weather, After this, they could use this area to plant crops." Some of the challenges Canadians faced were that first of all it was cold, they couldn't get food as easily, quote "they struggled to stay warm every day and night" and their water source might freeze. To stay warm they would put thin cotton fabric or oiled paper instead of buying glass windowplanes, they would block the cracks in the walls the same way or with clay, for water they would melt snow, they would make fires and they would save food from the summer. After looking at my family history I discovered that my family immigrated to Canada from a place called Londonderry (ya i know weird name) because after the war of 1812 the British gouvernement was concerned about the security of their Canadian border and was strongly promoting the immigration of loyal subjects from the British Isles at that time to strengthen their position there. They survived just like any other family at their time they saved food from the summer, they made fires and sealed all the cracks for insulation.
These are the sites i visited
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ass. #4

The first blog that i checked out was dillon's blog. I thought that dillon's entry for assignment 3 was awesome and very well written and a well thought out entry. I thought that james's blog incorporated a lot of topics that we need to start thinking about if we want our world to last and be preserved for generations and generations. The final blog that i checked out was morgan's blog another thing that she mentioned was the environement. What if the world is gone because of all the gases and litering and what if the air is all gone because we finally cut down the last tree. As everyone stated " nobody will know what it will be like in 2109" but we can always try and anticipate it.

ass. 3

I believe that in 2109 the world will be a more efficient place. Technology will be what we rely for our everday lifes, the recession will be long gone thanks to the work of president Obama. I also think that all the wars will be over and that the poverty in other countries will end and the biggest thing is that everone will get health benefits so that the world will be more healthy. That is what i think 2109 will be like but nobody knows for sure.

hi,
my name is russell a grade 7 student from ottawa and this term we are moving the textbooks aside and creating canadian history blogs. feel free to post.
my teacher has a history blog too check it out